Word: enough
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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From these considerations it would seem that Harvard herself hardly knows what she is. While the mark for a degree is low enough to allow all who so desire to enter and secure one, the number of required studies is being diminished, and experiments are being tried in voluntary recitations. The direction in which the policy is tending to advance is plain; as yet, however, while such a mixture of regulations exists, Harvard would seem to partake largely of the nature of a what...
...devoted himself to the profession of law, and perhaps his strongest ambition was to do well in this profession, in which some of his family had been distinguished. But it may be doubted whether, even if he had not died so young, he would have had health vigorous enough to allow of his accomplishing this or any other wish that he might have had at heart. Those who knew him best also think that, under a reserve hard to penetrate, there was a sensibility that augured ill for happiness under any circumstances that could be predicted for him with probability...
...educators, then, we should regard our college poetry as of value, and encourage, by a pardoning appreciation, the production of the best. As for humorous poetry and vers de societe, there is enough of it already, and it has readers in plenty...
...hideous mixtures which tailors delight to turn out." According to this writer, "black coats are the only garments in which it is decent for gentlemen to dine in the society of gentlemen"; and he thinks that fines ought to be imposed upon all undergraduates who are ill-bred enough to wear anything else...
...Freshman crew is successful, there is enough encouragement given the strong men of the class to work for the University. But if the crew is unsuccessful, or if, through lack of interest or mismanagement, no crew is sent to the race, the enthusiasm of many men cools, and the class makes a poor show in after years. When the crew is unsuccessful the good men are often discouraged, and if the crew falls through, it is not generally until towards the end of Freshman year, and men who might have been good oars have not been tested in club crews...